New 1.5 API to copy/move multiple paths

The copy/move API has been enhanced in 1.5 so that you can copy/move
multiple items in a single transaction. This is pretty nice. In
Subclipse, this is allowing us to provide a lot better branch/tag UI.
In Eclipse development, it is really common to have multiple related
projects in the same repository. For example, Subclipse is made up of
almost a dozen Eclipse projects from the same repository. With the
new API I can now easily tag them all with a single transaction.

The problem is that I cannot do it by copying from the WC. It works
fine when doing it via URL, but not the WC. This is not strictly
speaking a bug, but more of a limitation in Subversion. Really is
just a new incarnation of this problem which already exists for
commit:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2381

In Eclipse, each of my checked out projects lives in the same parent
folder locally, but that folder is not itself a WC. Essentially,
these WC's are all disconnected. So this is preventing me from
copying them all in a single transaction.

For commit, I can workaround this limitation with a hack. Before
doing the commit, I create a dummy .svn folder in the parent, and then
delete it after the commit. This does not work for copy. When I try
the same hack (I actually do svn co --depth=empty to create the .svn
first) I get a crash. Here is the trace.

So my question is simply whether this restriction that all of the
folders share a WC parent can be relaxed.

Thread 14 Crashed:
0 libsvn_client-1.0.dylib 0x395f0869 wc_to_repos_copy + 1127
1 libsvn_client-1.0.dylib 0x395f2ce3 setup_copy + 2718
2 libsvn_client-1.0.dylib 0x395f2e62 svn_client_copy4 + 178
3 libsvnjavahl-1.0.dylib 0x390170b6
SVNClient::copy(CopySources&, char const*, char const*, bool, bool) +
318 (SVNClient.cpp:425)
4 libsvnjavahl-1.0.dylib 0x39021af2
Java_org_tigris_subversion_javahl_SVNClient_copy + 378
(org_tigris_subversion_javahl_SVNClient.cpp:558)
5 <<00000000>> 0x04590281 0 + 72942209
6 <<00000000>> 0x0458acd9 0 + 72920281
7 <<00000000>> 0x0458acd9 0 + 72920281
8 <<00000000>> 0x0458a9d3 0 + 72919507
9 <<00000000>> 0x0458a9d3 0 + 72919507
10 <<00000000>> 0x0458a9d3 0 + 72919507
11 <<00000000>> 0x0458acd9 0 + 72920281
12 <<00000000>> 0x0458aaaa 0 + 72919722
13 <<00000000>> 0x0458aaaa 0 + 72919722
14 <<00000000>> 0x0458aaaa 0 + 72919722
15 <<00000000>> 0x0458821f 0 + 72909343
16 libclient.dylib 0x9b9d1f8a jio_snprintf + 396118
17 libclient.dylib 0x9b9de667 JVM_StartThread + 2397
18 libclient.dylib 0x9b9de579 JVM_StartThread + 2159
19 libclient.dylib 0x9b9de4bd JVM_StartThread + 1971
20 libclient.dylib 0x9b9de3e1 JVM_StartThread + 1751
21 libclient.dylib 0x9b96954b JNI_CreateJavaVM_Impl + 52525
22 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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